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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Gun Control and the Liberal Mind

I have a group of friends who meet for breakfast every two weeks. We are all conservatives except for one man who is a liberal. My liberal friend, who says there are no gun control laws in Chicago, where he’s from, also believes that Major Hasan, who murdered 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood and shot 32 others, is not an Islamic terrorist. He also seems to believe that normal, heterosexual men sexually molest young boys, not homosexuals. That’s why, according to him, it is wrong for the Boy Scouts to exclude homosexual men from being Scout Leaders. I guess that’s why we keep him around: so we are reminded occasionally just how warped the liberal mind is. He really is a nice guy, though, who volunteers his time to help others.

Why isn't gun control working in Chicago?January 30, 2013 Washington ExaminerOne week ago, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton performed with her high school band here in Washington at President Obama's inauguration. In addition to being a majorette, Pendleton was also an honor student and volleyball player who dreamed of visiting Paris this summer.On Tuesday, she was shot dead in a public park two blocks from her high school and less than a mile from Obama's Kenwood home in Chicago. The shooting prompted White House spokesman Jay Carney to remark, "If we can save even one child's life, we have an obligation to try when it comes to the scourge of gun violence."Pendleton was the 44th homicide victim in Chicago so far this year. That puts Chicago on pace to surpass last year's total of more than 500 murders. Chicago homicides have picked up dramatically in recent years and now outnumber killings in New York, which has three times Chicago's population. Meanwhile, in the Big Apple, fewer people were killed in 2012 than in any year since the 1960s. During a nine-day stretch this month, not a single New Yorker was murdered. Here in Washington, there have been only four murders so far in 2013. That's down 33 percent from the same period last year, when the city had the fewest killings in 50 years.Despite the media's intense attention to mass shootings, homicides, violent crime and gun deaths are all decreasing nationally, according to the latest FBI statistics. But not in Chicago. So what is causing the unacceptable wave of gun violence in Chicago?It's not because of lenient gun control laws. Chicago has the strongest gun control regime in the nation. Both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are completely banned in the city. And up until the 2010 Supreme Court decision that legalized them, handguns were banned too.You can now get a permit to own a firearm in Chicago, but it requires firearms training, two separate background checks and a firearm owner's identification card. As a result of these burdensome and punitive measures, only 7,640 people currently hold a firearms permit in Chicago. But criminals couldn't care less about Chicago's gun laws. Chicago police seized 7,400 guns used in crimes in 2012 alone.On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing in the U.S. Capitol titled "What Should America Do About Gun Violence?" Mass-shooting victim and former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords testified, as did National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre. But no one from the new murder capital of the United States, Chicago, was invited to testify.If Senate Democrats continue to push for more gun control legislation while ignoring the failure of existing, similar gun control laws in the president's hometown, House Republicans should rectify the situation. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., should take C-SPAN's cameras on the road and hold a field hearing in one of the few American cities where gun violence is bad and getting worse. We suggest a title that gets right to the point: "Why Isn't Gun Control Working in Chicago?"One question to address: If the real problem is that guns can be purchased in other jurisdictions, then why are America's other major cities seeing such huge declines in their murder rates, despite the fact that nearly all of them are near states with relatively lax gun laws?If Democrats are truly interested in making Americans safer, and not just in passing feel-good laws that will do nothing to decrease gun violence, then they should welcome a closer look at what is going so horribly wrong in Obama's hometown.

• Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.

3 Comments:

This has been said many times and the words go on being ignored; What they need to do is enforce the gun laws that they already have and start dealing with these offenders in a harsh way.

Like most Liberal mind sets, they really couldn't care less about the victims of gun crimes. I honestly think they welcome a chance to use these gun crime sprees to further their gun grabbing agenda. I'm sure you've heard about Rhame Emanuel advising Obama about the important use of a crisis when he said, "Don't ever let a good crisis go to waste."This is the way they think. Oh sure. He get up their all teary eyed and and try to express his faked condolences about that young girl who was shot and killed, but deep down he's wringing his hands in delight of an opportunity to get on the band wagon with his fellow Lefties and take everyone's firearms away. Obama has that same mind set. He has to be the shiftiest president that ever came down the pike. I usually write the words "In God we trust" on the back of each letter send and I encourage everyone to do the same, but maybe we all should write in parenthesis just under it, "In Obama we don't."

The murder rate in Chicago is basically the result of urban gang warfare, not the work of lunatics with unresolved grievances against the whole society. The ban on high capacity magazines in Chicago doesn't affect, and wasn't intended to affect the gangs. It is intended to help the police who are often outgunned on the streets. It may be ineffectual because it is so easy to get the banned magazines from other jurisdictions where they're legal. We need a national ban on such lethal instruments. There is no valid reason why any citizen needs a 30 round magazine to hunt or to defend himself. The NRA's defense of such fire power is unconscionable and only makes La Pierre look stupid. He'd advocate personal use of nerve gas, napalm, or C4, if he thought he could get away with it, and some of you kooks would go buy some, if they were available.

Only one liberal friend in your group, but apparently there are millions of liberal minds out there who unfortunately vote. Many are liberal only because they like "free stuff"from Democrats. The rest have the disease which I call liberalism. Unfortuntely, it is incurable.

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Russell Wilcox is a retired college professor who spends several months in Florida and several months in Rhode Island each year, and whose interests include boating and sailing, sports, political activism, ballroom dancing and bridge. He has an MBA from Harvard, a Computer Systems CAGS from Bryant and a BS from Northeastern. He has worked in industry for EG&G and Texas Instruments, operated his own business with more than 200 employees, and served as Director of the Computer Information Systems Program for Stonehill College. An Army veteran and private pilot, he is a published author, and is the proud father of four children and the proud grandfather of seven grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. A holder of two patents in microchip connections and a true product of the melting pot, his father is the son of a Yankee farmer, and his mother the first generation daughter of Italian immigrants who retained their culture, but strove mightily to become Americans, sending four sons to fight against Hitler and Mussolini.